Cut would reinforce America’s “rigged system.”Mick Mulvaney, the top budget official in Donald Trump’s White House. CREDIT: AP Photo/Carolyn KasterA small, efficient, 40-year-old program to provide legal aid to middle- and low-income clients in civil proceedings is facing the budget ax, according to a New York Times report on the early stages of the Trump administration’s internal budget … [Read more...]

The next Attorney General doesn’t have any bipartisan cosigners.Trump cabinet nominees Jeff Sessions and Steve Mnuchin share a laugh on Inauguration Day. CREDIT: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez MonsivaisJeff Sessions is one step closer to being Attorney General after the Senate Judiciary Committee formally recommended his confirmation to the full Senate on Wednesday morning.The panel approved Sessions’ … [Read more...]

A young consumer agency with a long list of wins faces life under autocracy.A sign warning of predatory payday lenders leans up against a chair during a speech by Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, in Richmond, Va., Thursday, March 26, 2015. CREDIT: AP Photo/Steve HelberThey’ve gone to court to fight every flavor of modern highwayman, from payday loan companies, abusive … [Read more...]

A megabank is settling a housing discrimination case for pennies, again.JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, left, talking with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I) in 2007. CREDIT: AP Photo/Mark LennihanOne of the country’s largest banks is hurrying to settle a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday alleging it had overcharged some 53,000 black and Hispanic homeowners on mortgage loans from 2006 … [Read more...]

Force’s oversight team will jump from 3 officials to 22 as homelessness agency’s own security forces expand.NYPD officers pass a homeless woman while patrolling the subway system in 2014. CREDIT: AP Photo/Mark LennihanNine months after Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) assigned New York City cops to redesign security procedures in the city’s vast network of homeless shelters, city officials are … [Read more...]

Everything’s bigger in Richistan.Billionaire Bill Gates and World Bank head Jim Yong Kim at the 2016 edition of the hyper-elite World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. CREDIT: AP Photo/Michel EulerAs right-wing politicians around the world gathered power by scapegoating immigrants for the economic struggles of working people, the world’s richest people got nearly a quarter trillion dollars … [Read more...]

One of the officers who showed up as backup the day Sandra Bland was arrested wanted to testify against the man who arrested her, but says he was prevented.
The post Texas Cop Says He Was Threatened For Trying To Tell The Truth About Sandra Bland appeared first on ThinkProgress. … [Read more...]

Before it put its miracle Hepatitis C drug on the market, an American pharmaceutical giant carefully pretended the drug comes from Ireland.
The post How A Life-Saving Drug Maker Is Cheating You Out Of A $10 Billion Share Of Drug You Paid To Create appeared first on ThinkProgress. … [Read more...]

The head of the Democratic National Committee is still listed as a cosponsor of industry-friendly legislation to sabotage new payday loan rules, however.
The post Predatory Payday Lenders’ Top Democratic Ally Flip Flops On New Rules appeared first on ThinkProgress. … [Read more...]

Federal regulations for payday lending are finally here. But are they strong enough to work?
The post The Day Payday Loan Sharks Feared Is Here, But It’s Consumer Groups Who Are Outraged appeared first on ThinkProgress. … [Read more...]

A new court ruling sets up a Supreme Court fight over whether or not bosses can ban their workers from class-action suits.
The post Surprise Ruling In Favor Of Labor Opens Up New Options For Workers Looking To Sue Their Employers appeared first on ThinkProgress. … [Read more...]

A white professional politician who was in diapers when John Lewis got his skull broken by Alabama state troopers just tried to hijack Lewis' legacy in order to undermine poverty programs.
The post GOP Congressman Tries To Hijack Civil Rights Movement Language To Destroy Anti-Poverty Programs appeared first on ThinkProgress. … [Read more...]

A Dallas food charity providing meals to the city’s homeless in 2006.
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Dallas city leaders voted Wednesday to walk back its crackdown on feeding the homeless in public and agreed to pay out a quarter-million-dollar cash settlement to the charities that took the city to court eight years ago. A national advocate for the homeless hopes Dallas’ experience will be a lesson to … [Read more...]

Spain received a warning in May that the Islamic State group was planning an attack in Barcelona but decided it lacked credibility, Catalan regional authorities said Thursday. The daily El … [Read More...]

A company that suffered an explosion at a chemical plant close to Houston has said it “fully expects” more fires - potentially as many as eight - as a result of flooding overwhelming the … [Read More...]

Mosques across the state of Texas are being turned into shelters for the victims of Hurricane Harvey. The Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), which represents 21 Islamic centres in … [Read More...]

White House

Police in the northern Spanish city of Barcelona say a white van has jumped the sidewalk in the city’s historic Las Ramblas district, injuring several people. Police cordoned off the broad … [Read More...]

A white supremacist who helped organise the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has appeared on camera crying as he describes his fear of arrest. Chris Cantwell, a racist … [Read More...]

Supreme Court

New York MagazineFive Years Later, States That Rejected the Medicaid Expansion May Get Their RewardNew York Magazine... that Just Said No will be (relatively speaking) rewarded. We would not … [Read More...]

NewsweekPort of Seattle files US Supreme Court brief opposing travel banKent ReporterThe Port of Seattle has filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court, urging the court to … [Read More...]